'Work with the Chairman' ? Or do as he tells you?

mmmmmm, difficult one to answer.

 

Global Commercial Sales Director

About the job

A new era has dawned at King's Lynn Town FC. With new Asian investment and a desire for the club to gain promotion into the Football League, we are now seeking someone to head up our commercial side; someone who ideally has worked in the football league and is not frightened about taking a step down the league's ladder to build something quite special and develop a commercial arm that others can only dream of. We will look at exceptional candidates who have not worked in football as long as they have transferable skills into this dynamic arena.


The role will be to develop the global and UK sponsorship business for King's Lynn Town FC.


- Develop sponsorship strategy, and identify local / regional / global sales opportunities for the club to fully maximize the utilization sale rate of the club’s sponsorship assets including selling the stadium naming rights
- Reporting to the Chairman, the Head of Commercial Partnerships will develop and own the sponsorship strategy and be focused on identifying establishing, and managing several value-added partnerships with partnership companies so that an annual revenue target is achieved
- There is an emphasis on securing significant income and growing the offer while managing relationships and ensuring all sponsorships are delivered to the highest standard


Key responsibilities:

- Meet all financial targets and provide well-researched, professional advice on all aspects of commercial development and sponsorship across the business
- Identify and develop appropriate new sponsorship opportunities for the club. Where currently non-existent, find ways to build visibility and presence in new markets/industries such that new sponsors can be identified and developed
- Maximize the strength of the brand and the potential of its external communication channels
- Manage and deliver a growing come budget
- Work with colleagues to develop propositions, scope proposals and oversee the “go-to-market” strategy for national sponsorships and then coordinate delivery to the highest standard
- Ensure exception value for sponsors across all activities and champion high-quality account management
- Develop the local/regional/global events sponsorship strategy and plans and oversee the implementation
- Develop seasonal tickets program and VIP fans program. Oversee the development of all season ticket holder's and VIP fans relationships
- Handle all contractual negotiations
- Day-to-day management and development of communications teams such as marketing ops and social media teams
- Work with the Chairman to set the vision for identifying new sponsorship opportunities
- Take a data-driven approach to decision-making
Represent the club in external meetings with senior executives from other companies
Salary will be dependent on experience and will consist of a basic, bonus and commission.
Norfolk is a beautiful place to live with great beaches and countryside, and housing is well-priced compared to much of the UK.

Widdler looking to take player No 6 ?

Why?

What can he offer that we can't?

Quote from: Mallard on April 24, 2024, 12:34:47 PM

How far down the pyramid will the Regulators remit oversee Paul ?

I read in the Chairmans programme notes (or EDP can't remember now) that it was only down to the National League so won't cover us at Step 2 and below.

I believe that to be correct.

Only half the job done!

I wonder what formation Pep would get his players to line up if they had to play on a pitch such as the Walks? 

Dixon Hodge between the sticks yesterday.

What are they planning to do with him?

Jones the saviour in many games this season (could be said his numerours important saves kept us up), but he can't go on forever.

 

Just watched AL 15min interview after the Sports game.   Interesting insight into what the hopes are for next season.  Has a hit list drawn up for  who he wants in for next season.

Puts a bit more meat on the bone to the mess inherited when he entered the building earlier in the season.  Was very critical Of the standard recruitments last summer.  I guess the likes of Bartley, Clifford,Oke, Smith, Spence etc could fall into that category.    Who was actually behind last summer’s new signings ?

To me the one glaring mistake in recruitment terms was Mark Hughes being appointment by Stephen Cleeve.  The rest followed behind that.

Well yes, BUT.....

If he didn't have the money for anything better at the time, what was he supposed to do?

No secret what Club finances were like when he decided to give the job to Hughes, and also in fairness to Hughes, that would also have hindered his recruitment.

Things then improved with finances and AL coming in.

A question is if Joe's money was just used to get us to the end of the season (I seem to remember the Chairman saying that 300k was needed to do that  ), or if are there surplus funds for AL to use on his shopping list for next season. 

Lynn lose their final home game of the season with Michael Gash scoring in added times  to give Sports all three points.

Kings Lynn 0 Sports 1.